Backstage Pass: Bleached

Sister acts have become a music world mainstay, but while waiting for Beyoncé and Solange to collaborate, there's Bleached to keep on entertaining. The Los Angeles duo, born from the city's rich history of punk-tinged girl groups like The Go-Gos, formed Bleached, when their previous band—lo-fi Mika Miko—called it quits. Jennifer and Jessica Clavin's jangly, three-chord, three-minute songs cover typical California girl problems (boys, surfing), with instantly hummable choruses that The Ramones would have killed for. Live, they bring along a drummer but there's no question which two are related onstage; for their current West Coast tour, the Clavins packed matching oxblood Dr. Martens. "Sister, sister!" joked Jessica about their overlapping sartorial tastes.

With garter belts and thigh-highs among their tour mainstays, it seems there's not much that the Bleached sisters won't pull on. "I feel like I always say, 'I'll never wear that,' and then eventually it happens," Jennifer admitted. The duo took a break from rocking out onstage to pull together an impromptu photo shoot—and detail the importance of packing lots of socks when you travel—for ELLE.com.

I brought this outfit on tour because: "I love bringing my favorites; I feel more complete since we are on the road and away from home every night."

My personal style is: "'90s-meets-Brigitte Bardot-meets a dark side."

If this outfit were one of Bleached's songs it would be: "'Dazed,' because part of that song is about being yourself."

I usually bring: "Eight outfits that I'll pick, like, the night before we leave, and just rotate them every night."

When packing I take into consideration: "[Fitting] everything—so not taking anything I might only wear once. Except I bring so many thigh-highs and tights, because that can always change an outfit up."

I always pack: "My oxblood, heeled Dr. Martens."

Before a show I: "Do some vocal exercises and then we usually will sing together to make sure our harmonizing is right."

The best on-the-road purchase I ever made was: "My BCBG navy trench coat. It goes with almost everything and looks so good!"

My favorite thing to have happened on tour so far is: "Playing the Strange Magic prom show at Space 1520 for Tavi [Gevinson]. So many 16-year-old girls going crazy. It was so awesome—I felt like I was in a teen movie."